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Job Description

About the role:

At Takeda, we are a forward-looking, world-class R&D organization that unlocks innovation and delivers transformative therapies to patients. By focusing R&D efforts on four therapeutic areas and other targeted investments, we push the boundaries of what is possible in order to bring life-changing therapies to patients worldwide.

Join Takeda as a Digital Scientist where you will provide important data management, visualization and analysis support to our global team. You will also explore custom and Off The Shelf software solutions to support the greater Development effort at Takeda Boston. As part of the Technology Development and Implementation Group within the Global Biotherapeutics Process Development Team, you will to Principal Systems Engineer, Automation and Digitalization.

How you will contribute:

• Work with departments within Biotherapeutics Process Development to establish formal standards for sample naming, and definition of the data categories, properties, and relations between the concepts, meta data, and entities that substantiate areas of BPD.

• Collaborate with internal and external partners to deliver data query, vision and analysis solutions.

• Provide custom and Off The Shelf applications to support connection of high throughput automation to various data repositories or control systems.

• Deliver important analysis against Biotherapeutics Process Development’s toughest data problems to give us critical insight to our largest questions.

• Manipulate voluminous data with different degree of structuring across disparate sources to build and communicate actionable insights for internal or external parties.

• Solve technology problems.

• Maintain knowledge on modern data management technologies, explore new platforms and beta tooling.

• Apply advanced techniques to complex problems in R&D and other organizations.

• Apply modern mathematical methods for data analysis.

• Drive new Data Science capabilities in the Biotherapeutics Process Development organization. This includes understanding a new method/technology, knowing what it may be good at and demonstrating a valid usage of this method against the appropriate data problem.

• Mentor other Data Teams in usage of technology and methods across the organization as we always grow our capabilities.

• Be the example for other data teams on analysis precision, output, quality and method selection for data science analysis for our team and others as well.

• Perform data analysis, coordinating with other data specialists, while presenting to Leadership Team.

• Coordinate with Data Scientists and Data Engineers to ensure harmonized approach to data ontology across the organization.

• Stay up to speed on modern data techniques, understand how to apply them and constantly demonstrate how and where to apply these new methods.

• Design, Execute, QC and Deliver Data Science Analysis independently and effectively across the organization.

Minimum Requirements/Qualifications:

• PhD in Computer Science, Data Science or equivalent

• Master’s Degree and 6+ years relevant experience

• Bachelors Degree and 8+ years’ relevant experience

• Up-to-date specialized knowledge of data wrangling, manipulation and management of technologies

• Expertise in Python, experience with two of the following languages preferred: R, JAVA or C+

• Working knowledge of SQL and NoSQL datastores

• Experience in a diverse scientific environment

• Provide leadership and expertise to best construct data and execute analysis for feature detection, retrospective and predictive modelling, within a complex R&D and Biotherapeutics Environment.

What Takeda can offer you:

• Comprehensive Healthcare: Medical, Dental, and Vision

• Financial Planning & Stability: 401(k) with company match and Annual Retirement Contribution Plan

• Health & Wellness programs including onsite flu shots and health screenings

• Generous time off for vacation and the option to purchase additional vacation days

• Community Outreach Programs and company match of charitable contributions

• Family Planning Support

• Flexible Work Paths

• Tuition reimbursement

More about us:

At Takeda, we are transforming patient care through the development of novel specialty pharmaceuticals and best in class patient support programs. Takeda is a patient-focused company that will inspire and empower you to grow through life-changing work.

Certified as a Global Top Employer, Takeda offers stimulating careers, encourages innovation, and strives for excellence in everything we do. We foster an inclusive, collaborative workplace, in which our teams are united by an unwavering commitment to deliver Better Health and a Brighter Future to people around the world.

In accordance with the CO Equal Pay Act, Colorado Applicants Are Not Permitted to Apply.

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Locations

Lexington, MA

Worker Type

Employee

Worker Sub-Type

Regular

Time Type

Full time